The tooth fairy is a total scam artist
I don't know about you, but when I was a kid, I got, at most, 25 cents per lost tooth.
Now I find out that baby teeth are a valuable and lucrative source of stem cells. (CNN)
Someone owes us some serious cash.
Now I find out that baby teeth are a valuable and lucrative source of stem cells. (CNN)
Someone owes us some serious cash.
posted by Waage on Thursday, July 20, 2006
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President Bush Discusses Baby Teeth Research Policy
East Room
2:08 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. Congress has just passed and sent to my desk a bill concerning the use of baby teeth in biomedical research. This bill illustrates both the promise and perils we face in the age of biotechnology. In this new era, our challenge is to harness the power of science to ease human suffering without sanctioning the practices that violate the dignity of baby teeth. (Applause.)
This bill would support the taking of innocent baby teeth in the hope of finding medical benefits for others. It crosses a moral boundary that our decent society needs to respect, so I vetoed it. (Applause.)
Yet we must also remember that embryonic stem cells that come from baby teeth are acquired for as little as twenty-five cents apiece. Each of these baby teeth is a unique human life with inherent dignity and matchless value. We see that value in the children who are with us today. Each of these children began his or her life with baby teeth that remained unused after the adult teeth grew in.
These boys and girls are not spare parts. (Applause.) They remind us of what is lost when baby teeth are destroyed in the name of research. They remind us that we all begin our lives with a small collection of baby teeth. And they remind us that in our zeal for new treatments and cures, America must never abandon our fundamental molars.
Thank you all for coming and may God bless all baby teeth. (Applause.)
END 2:23 P.M. EDT
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/07/20060719-3.html
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